Adjective

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(archaic) disembodied; without a body; separated from the body

*{{quote-book, year=1802, author=William Priest, title=Travels in the United States of America, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Immediately the unbodied souls of my ancestors appeared before me. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1864, author=George MacDonald, title=A Hidden Life and Other Poems, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Thou who didst come unbodied and alone, Ere yet the sun was set his rule to keep, Or ever the moon shone, Or e'er the wandering star-flocks forth were driven! }}

*{{quote-book, year=1917, author=Charles S. Brooks, title=There's Pippins And Cheese To Come, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Their unbodied heads, wherever they may be, are still smiling on the world, despite their divorcement. }}

Adjective

(en adjective)

Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; otherworldly; as, ethereal space; ethereal regions.

* 1667 : , Paradise Lost , book VII

Go, heavenly guest, ethereal messenger.

* 1862 : , Walking .

I trust that we shall be more imaginative, that our thoughts will be clearer, fresher, and more ethereal , as our sky,...

Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc.

* 1733 : , An Essay on Man

Vast chain of being, which from God began, Natures ethereal , human, angel, man.

Delicate, light and airy.